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Comic strip a conspiracy myth

Good strip Myriad, with one nitpick.

You need to read more Robert Aspirin. Then you would know that female Trolls are properly called Trollops.
 
cwalner said:
Good strip Myriad, with one nitpick.

You need to read more Robert Aspirin. Then you would know that female Trolls are properly called Trollops.
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...which would have confused or misled everyone not familiar with Asprin (the writer, not the pain reliever) about the point the strip was making. The reason is that "trollop" in conventional usage derogatorily refers to a young woman of loose morals, a meaning that does not at all apply to the (equally mythical) setting of "NWO Kitty" comic strips. The humor in Asprin's use of the word, apart from the simple pun, derives from a certain balance of tension between its meaning in the Myth Adventures universe and its normal meaning. (In some ways its normal meaning applies to Tanda/Tananda and in other ways it does not, creating the sort of tension between expectations and the course of depicted events that underlies much humor.)

The type of trolls described in the Asprin stories are of course unrelated to Internet trolling in any way whatsoever apart from the name. Thus, naming a staff of female NWO full-time Internet trolls "trollops" would make no more sense than, for example, replacing the word "solution" in the second bubble with "seven percent solution" merely because it would refer to an entirely different phrase that happens to contain the same word, in an entirely different work of fiction in an entirely different genre.

The only purpose it could possibly serve, at the cost of adding a distraction at best and rendering the strip incoherent at worst, would be to engage in a display of geekier-than-thou showing off. Which as you can see, I have about as much need to do as Bill Gates needs to show off his wristwatch.

Respectfully,
Myriad
 
Myriad said:
...which would have confused or misled everyone not familiar with Asprin (the writer, not the pain reliever) about the point the strip was making. The reason is that "trollop" in conventional usage derogatorily refers to a young woman of loose morals, a meaning that does not at all apply to the (equally mythical) setting of "NWO Kitty" comic strips. The humor in Asprin's use of the word, apart from the simple pun, derives from a certain balance of tension between its meaning in the Myth Adventures universe and its normal meaning. (In some ways its normal meaning applies to Tanda/Tananda and in other ways it does not, creating the sort of tension between expectations and the course of depicted events that underlies much humor.)

The type of trolls described in the Asprin stories are of course unrelated to Internet trolling in any way whatsoever apart from the name. Thus, naming a staff of female NWO full-time Internet trolls "trollops" would make no more sense than, for example, replacing the word "solution" in the second bubble with "seven percent solution" merely because it would refer to an entirely different phrase that happens to contain the same word, in an entirely different work of fiction in an entirely different genre.

The only purpose it could possibly serve, at the cost of adding a distraction at best and rendering the strip incoherent at worst, would be to engage in a display of geekier-than-thou showing off. Which as you can see, I have about as much need to do as Bill Gates needs to show off his wristwatch.

Respectfully,
Myriad
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Oh, stop trolling for nominations already!
 
Myriad said:
...which would have confused or misled everyone not familiar with Asprin (the writer, not the pain reliever) about the point the strip was making. The reason is that "trollop" in conventional usage derogatorily refers to a young woman of loose morals, a meaning that does not at all apply to the (equally mythical) setting of "NWO Kitty" comic strips. The humor in Asprin's use of the word, apart from the simple pun, derives from a certain balance of tension between its meaning in the Myth Adventures universe and its normal meaning. (In some ways its normal meaning applies to Tanda/Tananda and in other ways it does not, creating the sort of tension between expectations and the course of depicted events that underlies much humor.)

The type of trolls described in the Asprin stories are of course unrelated to Internet trolling in any way whatsoever apart from the name. Thus, naming a staff of female NWO full-time Internet trolls "trollops" would make no more sense than, for example, replacing the word "solution" in the second bubble with "seven percent solution" merely because it would refer to an entirely different phrase that happens to contain the same word, in an entirely different work of fiction in an entirely different genre.

The only purpose it could possibly serve, at the cost of adding a distraction at best and rendering the strip incoherent at worst, would be to engage in a display of geekier-than-thou showing off. Which as you can see, I have about as much need to do as Bill Gates needs to show off his wristwatch.

Respectfully,
Myriad
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Look, you pervert...
 
Testing more features of the Beta Site. We can mask the text boxes, and this was the only joke I could come up with for that feature.


 
I like it.

Nice to see Gravy returning to the strip, too.
 



I had to put the elephant half out of the frame to comply with Rule 9. Hey, it was a freebie for helping with the beta test, so I can't complain too much!
 
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